Improvement in factitious oils



.NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

'IMPROVEMENT lN- FACTITIOUS OILS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. I 2,614, dated April 3, 1855.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. ADAMS, of the city, county, and State of NewvYork, have invented a new and useful Im provementin the Manufacture and Composition of Lubricating and Burning Oils; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

The nature of my invention consists in mixing crude turpentine with the fixed oils and filtering the said mixtures after neutralizing any acid which may be in the turpentine by an alkali.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my in vention,I will proceed to describe its composition and manufacture.

To make agood lubricating and burning oil I ,take SBVBII gallons of lard-oil and one gallon of crude turpentine, as it comes into market from the pine tree, and mix them together.

This is done b stirrin the mixture a few minutes, when aperfect solution of theerude tur-,

six, tive, four, three, two, and one part of lard and other suitable oils with one part of crude turpentine and used these several mixtures with success uponmachineryand for burning in lamps.- Even one part of lard-oil and two parts ofcrtuieturpentine will mix together perfeetly and filter clear and answer for very slow and heavy bearings.

By mixing linseed or any other drying oil with crude turpentine as above a good painters oil is formed, especially for dark-colored paints. By mixing any of the fish-oils with crude turpentine in the same manner as above they are rendered whiter and sweeter, and good tannei-s oil is produced. VVhale-oil and crude turpentine thus rendered light colored and sweet make a good cordage-oil.

lam aware that animal and vegetable oils have been mixed together and used for lubiieating, painting, tanning, and burning purposes. 1 therefore claim no such mixtures; but crude turpentine is not an oil, and therefore its mixture with fixed oils is a new composition of matter.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The use of crude turpentine in a mixture made with it and the fixed oils, in the manner and for the purposes hereinbet'ore substantially set forth.

' HENRY W. ADAMS.

Witnesses:

DANIEL M. HASKELL, JAMES R. HASKELL. 

